[Foundation-l] Deletion of Wikibooks content by Jimbo

Fri Nov 25 16:08:22 UTC 2005

Well, as long as you're not over-dramatic abou...

Robert Scott Horning wrote:

> I've already complained about what Jimbo has been doing on Wikibooks, 
> so this isn't news.
>
> Several of the Wikibooks that Jimbo was complaining about were deleted 
> by him with the admin status he gave himself.  That by itself is OK, 
> but he did it with a total disregard to the fact that ongoing 
> community discussion about the modules is going on, and a complete 
> ignorance of what it means to delete a Wikibook in its entirety.  
> Deleting Wikibooks is a very involved process, and removing 
> [[b:Jokebook]] is going to be something that will take several hours 
> to complete by a competent admin and deleting the front page is only 
> going to make things worse.
>
> I don't want to get into an edit war with of all people Jimbo himself, 
> but this IMHO has gone way too far.  If he wants to serve some sort of 
> political agenda and disregard the genuine efforts of the community 
> that is building Wikimedia projects like Wikibooks, so be it.  He can 
> write everything himself there if he wants to as well.
>
> So long Wikimedia and all of the people here.  I have tried.  I hope 
> things improve for the better in the future.
>
> I hereby resign my position as admin on Wikibooks and I anticipate 
> that I will be banned there as well.  Good luck in the future in ever 
> trying to find people to keep this project going.
>